Slimming World Support Thread

angie_loves_veg

hmmm... I understand the too many eggs sentiment!

I do however menu plan on the household calendar, so I have been able to pull all this out very quickly! I have only included red lunches that don't include bacon or eggs!

Lunches this week (all red) have been:

butternut squash salad (with a yoghurt/cumin dressing)
omlette (yeah yeah - I know!)
pate on toast (B) - the meatloaf I mentioned, cold
carrot soup
marrow soup (guesss what my garden gluts are this year!)
giant mushrooms, grilled, on toast (B)
sardines (tinned in tomato sauce) on toast with vinegar - yum!

Other lunch ideas from the past include:

smoked salmon and salad (doesn't cost a fortune if you go to aldi etc)
leftover roast chicken
Onion soup (using a beef stock cube for 0.5 syns)
salmon or prawn with stir fry veg in soy
fajita (skirt steak (cheap), fried with spices, lots of onions and peppers, wrapped in little gem lettuce leaves)
hm chicken burger with salad
tandoori chicken and salad
celeriac soup
kippers

hope one or two of these inspire :cool: I can't help with breakfast though - I eat yogurt, hubby eats fruit. The only things that change are the flavours of yogurt and the choice of fruit!

insincere

Thank you so much angie loves veg.

oh god, this weeks been a total write off then. ive eaten cous cous a lot as i assumed it was free from slimming world magazine, and someone told me tom puree was free and ive had that in all my tomato based dishes.

My first week and ive completely screwed it. i might give up.

pollysg

insincere wrote: »

Thank you so much angie loves veg.

oh god, this weeks been a total write off then. ive eaten cous cous a lot as i assumed it was free from slimming world magazine, and someone told me tom puree was free and ive had that in all my tomato based dishes.

My first week and ive completely screwed it. i might give up.

Don't you dare give up insincere! You have made a good start by committing to do this, and there are plenty of people on here who have made far bigger mistakes than that, believe me.

You'll be fine.

polly

MrandMrsEvans

miss_nadine_x wrote: »

Red pepper hummus
drain a 400g can of chickpeas, deseed and roughly chop a red pepper; crush 3 garlic cloves, place in a food processor with the juice of 1 lemon, a pinch of cayenne pepper and 7oz/198g very low fat natural fromage frais and blend until smooth. season to taste and chill til ready to serve.

But I just blended 1 tin of chickpeas with 3 cloves of garlic and juice of half a lemon and it was really nice


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Thanks for this recipie..i love hoummus so will definitely be trying this:beer:

Well i've put 2lb on over the past couple of weeks which although i'm not happy about it it could have been a lot worse. This means i know have 7lbs t lose to get to target, so i'm getting all my books out today and i'm going to start writing everything down again.

Also is the new mag worth getting? Sometimes i find them really motivational and others i just flick through and look at the pics:D

Anyway it feels like brekkie time to me..must eat:p

MrandMrsEvans

Oh and insincere please don't give up..Everyone makes mistakes and it is difficult to get your head around the plan at first but it really does work

angie_loves_veg

insincere wrote: »

Thank you so much angie loves veg.

oh god, this weeks been a total write off then. ive eaten cous cous a lot as i assumed it was free from slimming world magazine, and someone told me tom puree was free and ive had that in all my tomato based dishes.

My first week and ive completely screwed it. i might give up.

Now, thats quite enough of that sort of talk thank you.

Right - onto business - so far, so good. Cous cous IS free on green, when used as part of your savoury dinners. It simply shouldn't be used as a flour subsitute (ie in a cake).

Tomato puree is ONLY 0.5 syns per tablespoon - Just count it and you can have it - a tablespoon here and there DOES make a big difference to flavour, so is often worth the small syn count.

Remember that you should have some syns each day - up to 15 is allowed.

You have made a great start - I found SW tricky in the early days - I felt that I shouldn't eat the syns, and tried to exist entirely on free food. In another week or so, I am sure you will get the hang of it. Are you a class member? If so, use your book to check as much as possible to start with, and use the website to check for syns elsewhere. I found the online food diary a HUGE help for the first three weeks - It puts things in the right section (A's and B's and syns) so you know you are getting it right...

When is your first weigh in? Let us know how you get on, and ...

take care :T

sarmia

Hi,

Can anyone help - I cant find my SW book and cant remember which veggies are free on a red day.

I dont think carrots or sweetcorn are I cant remember.... help!

S x

angie_loves_veg

carrots are free on red, but not sweetcorn.

hth

edit - BABY sweetcorn is free on red.

JoleneM

Can someone tell me if what I am/have eaten this weekend is ok. I think I have counted my healthy extras right. But not sure on how many syns I have/will have, could someone help work that out, please? (which food is free)

SATURDAY
BREAKFAST: vanilla mullerlight yoghurt with chopped up banana and strawberries. sml glas of orange juice
SNACK: hi-fi bar (HEB)
LUNCH: MUG SHOT (CREAMY CHEESE), babybel x2(HEA), 1 snack-a-jack jumbo caramel
SNACK: Fun size milky way
TEA: gammon (with fat cut off), pasta (with tbsp of mayo), salad (lettuce, green pepper, radish, toms, cucumber) with tbsp of olive oil, boiled egg
SNACK: hi-fi bar
LATE NIGHT SNACK: 250ml semi-skimmed milk (HEA) 28g shreddies (HEB)


SUNDAY
BREAKFAST: strawberry mullerlight yoghurt with chopped banana and starwberries, sml glass of orange juice, hi-fi bar(HEB)
SNACK: grapes/pear
LUNCH: roast lamb, boiled pots, veg and gravy
SNACK: boiled egg
TEA: mug shot (creamy cheese), babybel x2 (HEA), 1 snack-a-jack jumbo caramel
SNACK: 28g shreddies (HEB) 250ml semi-skimmed milk (HEA)


Thankyou for all your help. I have been doing this since April, but don't think I have been following the plan 100%, not really been using my HE's properly or counting syns.

Jolene

sarmia

angie_loves_veg wrote: »

carrots are free on red, but not sweetcorn.

hth

edit - BABY sweetcorn is free on red.

Thanks - would you know about broc and cauli?